Africa Quotes · Page 14

Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

— Ilana Mercer

“Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power”

— Fela Durotoye

Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.

— Sunil Bharti Mittal

“it was the largest such action to ever take place in South Africa; over 1,500,000 million workers took part”

— Anonymous

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

— Alexandra Fuller

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

— Malcolm X

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

— George Ayittey

We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

— Oliver Tambo

I want to see Nelson walking down the streets of South Africa; I want to see him walking hand-in-hand with Winnie Mandela.

— Hugh Masekela

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the…

— Melinda Gates

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an…

— Dacia Maraini

“In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him…

— Julius Nyerere

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Doesn't matter - from Kyrgyzstan, from Moldova, from Africa, from England, or everywhere. We have to be proud where we from.

— Dmitry Bivol

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't…

— Don Cheadle

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story…

— Spencer Wells

It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native…

— L. Ron Hubbard

If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to…

— Nelson Mandela

“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only…

— John McWhorter

“My horizon lightened, I see an old woman. Who is she? Where is she from? Bent over, the ends of her boubou…

— Mariama Bâ

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was…

— Jane Goodall

Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is…

— Susan Rice

“Africa. That bird came from Africa. But you mustn't cry for that bird, Paulie, because after a while it forgot about how…

— Stephen King

Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries.…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Africa is a vibrant, varied continent with a growing consumer base.

— Paul Polman

'Rosanna' was the hit, but 'Africa' resonated with everyone who heard it.

— Steve Lukather

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

— Angelina Jolie

“What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*”

— Josh Gates

In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

— Oliver Tambo

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

— P. W. Botha

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

— Hasso Plattner

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

— Noam Chomsky

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

— Nelson Mandela

Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.

— Mo Ibrahim

I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.

— Dave Chappelle

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

— PLO Lumumba

I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.

— Bill Kurtis

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

— Alice Walker

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

— Lee Ritenour